Dynamics

The trailer for the third season of The Umbrella Academy has been released, and the time paradox created by the Hargreeves siblings in the show’s sophomore season has really come back to bite them in the ass! Here’s the trailer, which pairs the always-welcome “Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet with the somewhat less-welcome Kugelblitz, a pug- and livestock-disintegrating consequence of their temporal paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs6alRuY1UU The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Here’s the synopsis of Umbrella Academy season…

“Levy flights” describe statistical properties of elementary quantum magnets as well as of bees foraging for food. Credit: Christoph Hohmann (MCQST Cluster)Quantum simulator provides insights into the dynamics of complex quantum systems.At first glance, a system consisting of 51 ions may appear to be easily manageable. But even if these charged atoms are only switched back and forth between two states, the result is more than two quadrillion (1015) different orderings which the system can take on.The behavior of such a…

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash towards the middle of the Sun – on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in teal. Credit: NASA/SDOThe Sun emitted a strong X-class solar flare on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, peaking at 9:55 a.m. EDT. <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div…

Light micrograph (LM) of the nasal cavity of a healthy (uninfected) person.A research team led by scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) tracked the rise and fall of <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>SARS-CoV-2</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the official name of the virus strain that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19).…

Spot, the most famous four-legged robot in the world, sometimes seems more like an animatronic entertainer than an industrial machine. But creators Boston Dynamic want to remind the world at large in a new video that this thing can do work, too. The new Spot spot, titled “No Time To Dance,” shows the quadrupedal bot carrying out a range of tasks in an industrial setting. Spot takes readings from gauges, uses an infrared camera to scan some equipment, and generates work orders for human employees. And, yes, then it does…

Microsoft and The Initiative confirmed that Crystal Dynamics is still assisting with the development of a new Perfect Dark game following the news of Crystal Dynamics’ change of ownership. On May 2, Embracer Group purchased Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, Square Enix Montreal, and the series associated with those studios from Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix. As the studio changed hands, it was possible that outside deals like this one with Microsoft could be at risk. Clearly, that’s not the…

Poplar, Wisconsin is a small village, population 603 as of 2010, near the Southwest tip of Lake Superior, about an hour and a half's drive from Minnesota. A humble place from which to start an electric aviation company, perhaps – although it does have the distinction of being the birthplace of the late Major "Dick" Bong, WW2 fighter pilot and America's "leading air ace of all time" with 40 aircraft kills in combat in New Guinea. It's also the home of one Daniel Gant, a mechanical engineer, former manufacturing engineer at…